Mourners are laying flowers near the scene of the deadly Christmas market attack as investigators puzzle over the motive of the suspect.

A theatre in Magdeburg is to hold a memorial concert on Thursday for victims of the attack on the central German city's Christmas market The traditional Christmas concert at the Magedeburg Theatre is to be changed to reflect on last Friday's attack,

Far-right co-chair Alice Weidel says attack was ‘an act of an Islamist full of hatred ... for us Germans, for us Christians’